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Over the years Techdirt has run a number of stories that make it abundantly clear that you don't own those ebooks you paid for. B...

As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...

It is extraordinary how companies have failed to grasp three basic facts about DRM: that DRM only needs to be broken once, and it is bro...

The rapid uptake of ebooks by the public shows that there is a widespread recognition of their advantages. This would be good news for ...

In the online world, it's hard to remember a time before Amazon. Today, it dominates the ecommerce space, and is rapidly becoming eq...

At the end of last year, I wrote about the great service Barnes & Noble had performed by drawing back the curtain on one of Microsoft...

One of the beloved tropes of the copyright industries is that they are being destroyed by online piracy. Superficially, it's a plausi...

As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...

A couple of weeks ago the popular ebook portal Library.nu was shut down , apparently voluntarily, after a coalition of book publishers obt...

Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because ...

Well, this was bound to happen. Barnes & Noble is offering big discounts on its Nook e-readers to people taking out subscriptions to ...

Against the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA and PIPA, traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth:...

The launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire at a price well below expectations has naturally focused people's attention on the e-book sid...

One key property of printed books is that it is very hard to modify them. Digital books, by contrast, are trivially easy to re-write - prov...

So the publishing dinosaurs have got together and produced an egg: The Berlin Declaration on the Future of the Digital Press. Unfortunatel...

Amazon's Kindle runs GNU/Linux, which is no surprise given its suitability for these kind of consumer systems. The Kindle is fast establ...

Every year, some of the top ebook companies and organisations come together to offer extremely large numbers of ebooks, absolutely free (mos...

Somebody looking at the bigger picture : The past few days I have been in talks with Sina's VIP Book Channel. We will sign a contract on...

This could be quite significant : All the novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize could be made available online in a radical move being...

So, Amazon's getting into the ebook business; that's nice. But : Amazon isn’t supporting the industry’s open standard around eBooks...